Plug in the USB Volar HX ( A827 )tuner.
Install driver in normal mode, and should see the installation concluded succesfully.
Next, the messages is to unplug the device (do so) and to replug it (do so)
Next, there is the sound testing. Modify the parameters according with your area.
You should hear a tv sound like (with or without station). The ideea is to get sound from the USB tuner.
After that there is the h826d-tools the software wants to install. You can install it, but there
is no need of it (some sh scripts tv-player, audio, radio-player).

The thing is after that, you should see in dmesg, the tuner loaded and then devices created:
video0 vbi1 radio0 and even adapter0 (for dvb) and of course the alsa.
A cat /proc/asound/cards should display 1. your system sound card (let's say ALC 826 analog device)
and 2. The Avermedia sound emulation.
Of course if there is a webcam installed, these device are different: video1 and so on.

I only tested on analog tv and composite.
For video I used tvtime (scan and watch analog channels but no sound) and
mplayer - watched analog tv channels with sound on alsa server(I removed pulse as I always do.)
There is no need to start arecord, or aplay, or sox, or even to fire up the audio sh from
the H826-tools) as instructed, because the sound cand be caught on mplayer command line.
(The same for mencoder)
The only mention that it deserve to be made, is to install all the alsa-plugins.
Enjoy!